Daniel Schulman

I now have about a decade of experience providing various Internet services, consulting on websites, and making my own websites. Through these endeavors, I’ve made various small impacts on people’s lives:

• I’ve been responsible for tens of thousands of popups asking people if they want to take a survey
• I’ve wholly produced websites that generated hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors
• I’ve consulted on major sites with audiences in the millions of monthly visitors category

When I lived in Los Angeles, I knew lots of people in the entertainment industry. Whether a lowly PA who fetches coffee, a screenwriter, an actor, or a member of the crew, when I was with someone in the industry and we met someone new, the first question after what you do, would invariably be have you ever worked on something I’ve might have seen?

You can jsut imagine what use they might put this knowledge to. They get hoem from work and tell their significant other, “Honey, you won’t believe it but I met someone who does lighting on Seinfeld today.” Even the most casual of connection to the industry becomes an amusing story.

Now in my 10 years of working on websites big and small, nobody has ever asked me have you ever worked on a website I might have visited. When I mention this fact to people, I get back comments like “of course not, who cares.” I realize nobody cares, but I think that is interesting in its own right. It leads me to the question of this post, Why is the Internet so boring?

There are a lot of Internet cheerleaders out there. These have come and gone over time from RedHerring to Techcrunch. They like to point to all their site visitors and lively discussions to underscore how sexy the Internet really is. Still, though, is there any mass market here? Are these just the same people talking amongst themselves?

Now if you’ve gotten this far, you ar ewelcome to tell people that you read a blog post today by someone who worked on …

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